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2015-10-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Harvard's prestigious debate team loses to NY inmates

BOSTON -- A group of New York inmates has toppled Harvard's prestigious debate team.

It took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Napanoch. The Ivy League undergrads were invited last month to debate the inmates who take in-prison courses taught by Bard College faculty.

Harvard's team won the national title this year and the world championship in 2014.

But the inmates are building a reputation, too. The club has notched victories against teams from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the University of Vermont.

Against Harvard, the inmates were tasked with defending the position that public schools should be allowed to turn away students whose parents came to the U.S. illegally. Harvard's team responded, but a panel of neutral judges declared the inmates victorious.
Heh. Vid @ link.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2015-10-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 America. The place where they put the smartest people in jail and put the dumbest in WH.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-09 05:14|| 2015-10-09 05:14|| Front Page Top

#2 I know it's not supposed to matter in a formal debate, but sometimes the more intelligent position is easier to defend.

Posted by Bobby 2015-10-09 08:16|| 2015-10-09 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 America. The place where they put the smartest people in jail and put the dumbest in WH.

Not only once, but twice. Used to be, they would be dumped out after one term.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-10-09 09:01|| 2015-10-09 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 The power of GED.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2015-10-09 12:50|| 2015-10-09 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Not fair, they chose a subject that the PC-addled Harvard students were simply unable to deal with rationally (without the usual claims of racist).

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-10-09 15:21|| 2015-10-09 15:21|| Front Page Top

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